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Alabama wants to use Gulf restoration funds to build a $60 million beachfront hotel
The hotel was destroyed six years before the BP oil spill but could get millions in restoration funds anyway.
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Are your urban veggies really toxic?
A recent Cornell study found alarming levels of lead in NYC-grown vegetables. Should we be freaked?
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The Daily Show skewers Detroit over water shut-offs
The show's Jessica Williams cracks wise about ball washers as the city's water department continues shutting off accounts.
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Watch out, NYC, your backyard carrots might be pumped full of lead
The study found five out of seven garden plots had unsafe levels of toxic metals in the soil. Gulp.
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This Southside Chicago neighborhood is about to become a national park
The neighborhood is a far cry from Yellowstone or Yosemite, but it is significant for other reasons.
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All that light pollution is wasting energy AND making you sick
Our addiction to electricity is giving everyone jet lag.
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Meet the man who re-energized NYC parks — and wants to do the same for yours
Adrian Benepe was responsible for adding more than 700 acres to the Big Apple's park system. Now he's taking the cause national.
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Lost Louisiana: The race to reclaim vanished land back from the sea
The world’s fastest submerging state is looking to nature in an ambitious plan to turn back the tide, and to BP to fund it -- but will it work?
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Behind every crumbling downtown is a billionaire who wants to save it
Detroit ponders its dependence on billionaire Dan Gilbert just as another high-profile effort to revive a downtown in Las Vegas, led by another tech CEO, hits the rapids.
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The cruel, increasingly usual prison punishment no one is talking about
Climate change and urban heat islands are making life inside the big house even more intolerable for the guilty and innocent alike.
